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For over eighteen years, audiences all over Canada and around the world have delighted in the music produced by this trio from southern Québec. Genticorum has performed over a thousand concerts in fifteen different countries, presenting the exciting traditional music of Québec, (which is considered to be "world music" everywhere else,) to a global diversity of audiences. The reviews are stellar everywhere they go, and listeners love the humour, charisma and boundless energy of their live shows.
Headed by fiddler Pascal Gemme, with accompanist Yann Falquet, the band has grown musically. Five years ago a shift in the Genticorum continuum saw long-time flute player Alex de Grosbois-Garand move on to other musical interests. Stepping in to more than capably fill those shoes is Nicholas Williams, who has brought new flavor to this musical smorgasbord of Québecois trad combined with what you might call "new trad" – fresh compositions in the traditional vein.
Pascal Gemme (fiddle, feet and voice) wanted to play music from the time he was a child at his fiddler grandfather's knee. But today, he doesn't just play those traditional tunes with verve, offering singularly effortless interpretations and great arrangements, he is also a marvelous composer, creating new tunes in the traditional vein. Yann Falquet (guitar, guimbarde, diatonic accordion, voice,) has not only developed a wholly unique and beautiful style of guitar accompaniment, but is also a lovely composer in his own right. Nicholas Williams (piano accordion, flutes, voice,) seems to be able to play anything you put in his hands, and he's also a terrific composer and vocalist.
It's taken four years for the new band to gel, to be comfortable enough that they could have an intuitive sense of how to play well together. Said Pascal: "We wanted to have time to really lock in musically with Nicholas. We played a LOT together during those four years. … In some ways, putting together this album (the sixth for Genticorum,) was like it was a first album all over again."
It eventually took two years for Avant L'Orage to come to fruition.
"We wanted to have each musician contribute equally to the final arrangements," explained Pascal. "We wanted to create a true fusion of our collective experiences as professional musicians and incorporate Nicholas' expertise in harmony singing and band arrangement into the collective."
Each of the musicians brought tunes, songs and compositions to the group for consideration. They took their time, testing out the material in live performances, and then looking for the thread that bound the best ones together. From this process, the title Avant L'Orage – Before the Storm – emerged. It refers to the feeling of heaviness and tension in the air, Mother Nature holding her breath, waiting for the inevitable discharge of electrons. The idea and the feeling are replicated in the arrangements, full of nuances, tension and expectations. This intensity is captured fully in "Reel Lenoir," a kaleidoscopic, trance-inducing composition – a collaboration from all three band members.
That tension carries through the song lyrics on the album. There are tales of peril and impending doom. A young woman is married against her will. Picking roses results in a broken leg, which can only be healed by a questionable medical practice. A couple in love perishes in a shipwreck. Another couple, walking on a mountain, is to be separated by a death, and a naughty buckwheat miller lures young maidens inexorably to their doom while the creaking sails turn in the wind. The band weaves as counterpoint intricate interplay among fiddle, accordion, flute, guimbarde and guitar and conjures colourful harmonies among their voices. It's beautiful listening, even if you don't understand the French lyrics.
Now that Nicholas has joined Genticorum, the band's musical colours have grown to an entire rainbow, made possible by the addition of the two accordions as well as Nicholas' massive experience in singing harmony, performing world music, playing and arranging for contradance bands, and playing multiple kinds of flutes. Avant L'Orage is nothing short of wonderful listening. It's a testament to the talents of these gifted musicians that they've managed to again capture Genticorum's signature sound while at the same time broadening the colours and capturing the ethos afresh.
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Genticorum in concert:
July 6-9 – Winnipeg Folk Festival
July 27-29 – Festival Mémoire et Racines, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC
Aug. 3 – Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival – St. John's, NL
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New Study Suggests that AI Can Detect Loneliness by Your Voice with 94% Accuracy
There may be times when you may have said, "Haha, that's so sad. Alexa, play Despacito," but ironically Artificial Intelligence can now detect if you're really sad or joking.
According to a recently published paper by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine used AI to analyze language patterns of adults to discern loneliness. The paper has been published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. It attempts to assess the breadth and depth of loneliness through voice.
Author Dr. Ellen Lee, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine told Patch "Most studies use either a direct question of "How often do you feel lonely?" which can lead to biased responses due to stigma associated with loneliness or the UCLA Loneliness Scale, which does not explicitly use the word lonely."
The study has used natural language processing or NLP which is an unbiased quantitative assessment of expressed emotion with the usual loneliness measurement tools.
NLP encompasses a variety of processes and techniques that analyze large volumes of unstructured speech and text data. In recent years, the advancement of AI and machine learning systems have bought to light, several preliminary studies to suggest conditions such as PTSD, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and depression, all of which might be detected just by analyzing natural speech.
Varsha Badal, a postdoctoral research fellow and author on the report, said "NLP and machine learning allow us to systematically examine long interviews from many individuals and explore how subtle speech features like emotions may indicate loneliness. Similar emotion analyses by humans would be open to bias, lack consistency, and require extensive training to standardize."
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Reportedly, the AI system can predict the loneliness of a person with 94% accuracy.
The researchers concluded in the study "Eventually, complex AI systems could intervene in real-time to help individuals to reduce their loneliness by adopting in positive cognitions, managing social anxiety, and engaging in meaningful social activities."
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51% Believe A Home Is A Family's Best Investment - 98% Of Big Banksters Believe Home Equity is Easily Looted - Rasmussen Reports™
51% Believe A Home Is A Family's Best Investment - Rasmussen Reports™
POVERTY IN THE BURBS…you are next and an illegal is next in your job!
OBAMAnomics at work: SOARING RICHES FOR THE 1%, SOARING UNEMPLOYMENT FOR AMERICANS (LEGALS), SOARING PROFITS and CRIMES FOR OBAMA'S BANKSTER DONORS and SOARING TAXES TO PAY FOR MEXICO'S WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
Much of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the impoverishment of working families already living there. The decline in manufacturing, the Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many longtime suburban families reeling
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/obamas-america-soaring-poverty.html
Much of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the impoverishment of working families already living there. The decline in manufacturing, the Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many longtime suburban families reeling.
PROFITS SOARED AS DID BANK CRIMES and FORECLOSURES.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/obama-vows-to-banks-he-will-continue-to.html
"That McLaughlin's plan can be presented as "left" only underscores the fact that the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing to assist homebuyers. Its mortgage programs have been based on the banks voluntarily agreeing to restructure loans for small sections of the population, with no reduction in principal. The administration has worked closely with the banks to minimize their liability for their fraudulent and criminal practices that have already led millions to lose their homes."
THE WRECKING OF AMERICA: BARACK OBAMA and his LOOTING WALL STREET DONORS PILLAGE A NATION BUSH STYLE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-wrecking-of-america-barack-obama.html
In 2008, candidate Obama preached: "We need a president who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies."… AND HE NEVER STOPPED LYING TO US OR LOOTING US ON BEHALF OF HIS WALL STREET BANSTERS.
WARS FOR MUSLIMS, OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX AND UNLEASHED RAPE BY WALL STREET DONORS!
the figures are in on Obama's looting of America for Wall Street!
STAGGERING POVERTY IN AMERICA CAUSED BY OBAMA, HIS CRONIES AND WALL STREET DONORS…AND THEN ILLEGALS GET THE JOBS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/obamanomics-and-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
According to a new report by University of California Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez, the gulf between the wealthy and the rest of society has sharply expanded under Obama. The richest one percent now monopolize more than 22 percent of all household income in America. The richest ten percent of the population now control more than half of the nation's income, 50.4 percent—the highest proportion since the government began collecting income statistics in 1917.
Since 2009, the richest one percent has captured a staggering 95 percent of all income gains. The class war policies of the government—including bank bailouts, "quantitative easing" and an attack on wage and benefits for the working class—have led to a 31.4 percent rise in income for the top one percent. The wealthy have more than recovered the losses that came from the Wall Street collapse of 2008.
Meanwhile, the bottom 99 percent has seen a negligible 0.4 percent rise in income. Tens of millions of workers—who never recovered from the record household income drop of 2007 to 2009—continue to reel from the effects of mass job losses, falling wages, home foreclosures, indebtedness and social service cuts.
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WELFARE FOR MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS IN LOS ANGELES ABOVE $600 MILLION PER YEAR - CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS VOWS TO DOUBLE IT AND PUT MORE ILLEGALS INTO AMERICAN JOBS
SHE WAS APPOINTED BY HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA TO EASE MILLIONS OF MEXICANS INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS.
DURING OBAMA'S FIRST TERM ALONE TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL!
"Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, announced the "We Can Help" project with great fanfare a few days ago."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/11/hilda-solis-runs-for-los-angeles-county.html
SHE IS A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AND SUPPORTER OF MEXICAN FASCISM AND THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in AMERICA – THEY ALREADY GET OUR VOTES.
Mexico endorses HILDA SOLIS for Los Angeles County Supervisor - Dedicated to expanding the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in Mex-infested MEXIFORNIA
FOOLS STILL THINK MEXICANS ARE NOT VOTING FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY. THEY VOTE IN DROVES FOR RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GIL CEDILLO!
WHEN ILLEGALS ELECT MEXICANS, THAT LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CONSIDERS MEXICANS THEIR SOLE CONSTITUENCY, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGALS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/gil-cedillo-la-raza-fascism-at-work-in.html
But that nickname diminishes Cedillo, who should be taken seriously. When it comes to representing the interests of illegal immigrants Gil Cedillo is a true believer.
LA's own 'secretary of state' not looking after our interests
By Doug McIntyre, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 08/17/13, 6:31 PM PDT | Updated: 11 secs ago
Our secretary of state was one busy diplomat last week scrambling to get ahead of a mushrooming crisis.
COUNTY SUPERIVISOR CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS and the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
LA RAZA CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS for LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR VOWS TO EXPAND WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS and EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO AMERICAN JOBS
HILDA SOLIS RUNS FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR - CAN WE AFFORD ANOTHER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AFTER GLORIA MOLINA?
"Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election."
LaRaza Calls For Boycott Against Free Speech
No surprise here. Pulling the race/hate card again and using political correctness La Raza goes after cable shows reporting on illegal immigration.
"Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. "Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs," she said. "Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril."
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/50375/
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA "THE RACE" Obama-funded Mexican fascism in our borders!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/06/obamas-part-base-of-la-raza-15-things.html
SOME HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA:
ON THE GROWIN POWER OF "LA RAZA" FASCISM FOR MEX SUPREMACY
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/04/history-of-mexican-fascist-party-of-la.html
Tonight Tuesday July 8, 2008
Sens. McCain and Obama are fiercely courting the Latino vote. Last month they spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; today it's the League of United Latin American Citizens' national convention; and this weekend they're set to address the National Council of La Raza, one of the most radical socio-ethnocentric interest groups in the country.
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico
STATE by STATE… 49 more mexifornias
has Obama promised Mexico, La Raza and employers of illegals open and undefended borders and 49 more easy to loot mexifornias?
THE BIGGEST MEXICAN DUMPSTER IN CA IS LOS ANGELES, GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND MEXICO'S CENTER FOR ANCHOR BABY FACTORY FOR WELFARE.
MEXIFORNIA: The Shattering of the American Dream
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/11/california-mexicos-looted-welfare-state.html
MEXICO BANKRUPTS CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS - MEX CONSULATES URGE LOOTING OF LEGALS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/10/mexico-bankrupts-california-hospitals.html
JUDICIAL WATCH:
While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government.
OBAMA HANDS TAX DOLLARS TO MEXICAN SUPREMACIST:
(THE 2013 AMNESTY HOAX UPS AMERICAN TAX MONEY GOING TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA BY $150 MILLION! VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? WE ARE PAYING FOR IT!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-first-hispandering-la-raza.html
Now you sound off. Should the United States taxpayer be funding the National Council of La Raza? THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
By Dave Gibson
2006 – UNDER BARACK OBAMA, FUNDING FOR LA RAZA HAS SOARED.
http://americandaily.com/article/15577
In 2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S. federal grants.
American Taxpayers Being Forced To Support Latino Nazi Party
By Dave Gibson (09/17/06)
In 2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and President Bush signed. Considering the racist agenda of La Raza, giving federal funds to this group is tantamount to the U.S. funding the Nazis in the 1930's.
The comparison to the Nazi Party is well deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the re-occupation of the Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf Hitler planned to called his utopia Germania).
Karl Rove was one of the keynote speakers at this year's annual National Council of La Raza Conference. The event was held in Los Angeles (the eventual capital of Atzlan). Other speakers included Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and the virulent racist L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The fact that Karl Rove is the President's top political adviser and addressed the group with Bush's blessing, is a strong indicator that this nation is being subverted at the very highest levels.
If La Raza was a white supremacist group with equally deep pockets, the U.S. government would place them on a terrorist watch list, infiltrate them with undercover FBI agents, and subject them to constant harassment by the Internal Revenue Service. Eventually, the group's leaders would be jailed and the group itself would be rendered irrelevant. However, because La Raza is a Latino supremacist group, the Bush administration and most of Congress offer them financial support!
One of La Raza's biggest supporters is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In 2001, Reid asked the Senate Appropriations Committee for $5 million to help further the racist goals of that organization. That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for "his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community." Reid in turn praised La Raza by saying: "La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths."
Taxpayer funds are also funneled to La Raza through the Department of Health and Human Services, The Environmental Protection Agency, and even NASA. Tax dollars are hidden in these government agencies, earmarked to be specifically given away to La Raza. Inside the halls of Congress, the practice is known as discretionary funding...In the real world it is known as money laundering!
In 2005, $7.9 million was stolen from the American taxpayers and given out to Latino-only charter schools in the form of U.S. Department of Education grants. The following is a list of a few of those schools:
-La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles)
-Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ)
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/e-verify-obama-sabotages-to-put-his-la.html
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST MOVEMENT DEMANDS EXPANDED OBAMACARE for MEXICANS.
ACTUALLY LA RAZA SUPREMACIST ESQUELAS, MEXICAN EXPECT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO AIDE THEM IN LOOTING THE STUPID GRINGOS, BECAUSE THE ONLY THING MEXICO DOES FOR THEIR POOR, CRIMINALS AND ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS IS EXPORT THEM TO LOOT AMERICANS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/mexico-la-raza-supremacy-party-and.html
"Latinos have an expectation that government will fulfill certain basic services and health care is one of them," Fernando Espuelas, who hosts a popular call-in radio show on Univision, tells me.
"WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!"…. THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/by-anchor-baby-breeding-illgals-voting.html
OBAMA'S AGENDA OF BUYING THE LA RAZA "THE RACE" ILLEGALS' VOTES BY EASING THEM INTO OUR JOBS! THIS KEEPS WAGES DEPRESSED, AND THEREFORE OBAMA'S WALL ST. DONORS HAPPY AND GENEROUS!
If job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory - TheHill.com
OBAMA'S LA RAZA DEPT. of JUSTICE, WHEN NOT ARMING THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS, IS HARASSING AMERICAN STATES WITH LAWSUITS, FIGHTING AGAINST IDs TO EASE ILLEGALS INTO OUR VOTING BOOTHS, AND FIGHTING E-VERIFY!
THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE HALF OR MORE JOBS GO TO ILLEGAL USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!
THE LA RAZA FACTION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW SIGNED BY LA RAZA DEM, GOV JERRY BROWN MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!!!
LOS ANGELES IS THE MEX GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICAN, AND GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? IT'S WHAT OBAMA DOES EVERY DAY!
DEMS ARE THE PARTY FOR ILLEGALS = DEPRESSED WAGES AND HAPPY DONORS!
OBAMA PUT A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST IN AS SEC. OF LABOR TO ASSURE ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS FIRST!
If job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory
By Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) - 06/14/11 04:30 PM ET
In a speech delivered during a campaign fundraising trip to Texas last month, President Obama called for Congress to approve comprehensive immigration reform, also known as "amnesty." Meanwhile, the president and his administration claim that putting unemployed Americans back to work is their No. 1 priority.
But these two goals cannot be met simultaneously. The president cannot say on one hand that he wants to create jobs and on the other that he wants to legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
Amnesty prevents Americans from getting jobs, since millions of illegal immigrants will become eligible to work legally in the United States. The president's proposal to legalize millions of illegal immigrants means more competition for American workers who are in need of jobs.
Look at history to see how amnesty has played out in the past. In 1986, Congress legalized about 3 million illegal immigrants. It didn't fix the problem; it only made it worse. Today, there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and 7 million people work here illegally. At the same time, 26 million Americans are unemployed or have given up looking for work.
It is inexcusable that Americans and legal workers have to compete with illegal immigrants for scarce jobs. Rather than reward lawbreakers, we should put American workers first.
Fortunately, there is a free, quick and easy tool available to preserve jobs for legal workers: E-Verify. But the program is currently voluntary. Congress has the opportunity to expand E-Verify so more job opportunities are made available to unemployed Americans. There is no other legislation that can be enacted that will create more jobs -- maybe millions more -- for American workers.
Created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, E-Verify is a Web-based system that allows employers to electronically verify the work eligibility of newly hired employees.
Under E-Verify, the Social Security numbers of new hires are checked against Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security records to weed out fraudulent numbers and help ensure that new hires are legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Even though E-Verify is not mandatory, more than 250,000 businesses willingly use E-Verify and 1,300 new businesses sign up each week. Individuals eligible to work receive immediate confirmation 99.5 percent of the time.
Unlike amnesty, E-Verify has received overwhelming bipartisan support since its creation as a pilot program in 1996. It was extended in 2002, 2008 and 2010. In 2008, the House passed a standalone five-year extension of E-Verify by a vote of 407-2. And in 2009, the Senate passed a permanent E-Verify extension by voice vote.
Part of the success of E-Verify is that participating employers are happy with the results. Outside evaluations have found that the vast majority of employers using E-Verify believe it to be an effective and reliable tool for checking the legal status of their employees.
And E-Verify recently received an exceptionally high overall customer satisfaction score -- 82 out of 100 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index scale. That is well above the overall federal government satisfaction index of 69.
The American people also support E-Verify. A May 2011 Rasmussen poll found that 82 percent of likely voters think businesses should be required to use the federal government's E-Verify system to determine if a potential employee is in the country legally.
And a 2010 Zogby poll of minorities commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 88 percent of likely minority voters polled support reducing the illegal immigrant population over time by enforcing existing immigration laws, such as requiring employers to verify the legal status of their workers.
With millions of citizens and legal workers looking for work, it is important that we promote policies that increase job opportunities for Americans and legal immigrants. Amnesty undermines this goal, but making E-Verify mandatory helps achieve it.
As long as opportunities for illegal employment exist, the incentive to enter the United States illegally or to overstay visas will continue.
If job creation is the president's priority, then he should push Congress to pass mandatory E-Verify legislation. We cannot sit and hope that businesses hire only legal workers; hope is not a strategy. E-Verify is our best tool for reducing the jobs magnet and creating more jobs for American workers.
Smith is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
http://thehill.com/special-reports/immigration-june-2011/166421-if-job-creation-is-the-goal-make-e-verify-mandatory
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/e-verify-obama-sabotages-our-laws.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS!
THE REASON OBAMA NOMINATED SOTOMAYER WAS BECAUSE SHE'S A "WISE LATINA" BITCH, AND HAD LONG HISTORY OF PANDERING FOR BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS, LIKE OBAMA! IT DIDN'T HURT THAT SOTOMAYER IS A MEMBER OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA "THE RACE", AS YOU DON'T WORK IN OBAMA'S ADMIN UNLESS YOU'RE LA RAZA OR BANKSTER CONNECTED!!!
Sonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify requirement
True to form, she said it was illegal to make employers e-verify citizen status of new hires.
Interesting, she says a state cannot force employers to check if employees they are hiring are illegal. Thankfully the court ruled 5-3 supporting law. But now we know for sure just how extreme far left Obama's choice was. We cannot afford Obama to get another term, or you can bet this country will be overrun by illegals. I don't want this country to be poor and corrupt like Mexico, which it will if illegals overrun the country.
"PUNISH OUR ENEMIES"… does that mean assault the legals of Arizona that must fend off the Mexican invasion, occupation, growing criminal and welfare state, as well as Mex Drug cartels???
OBAMA TELLS ILLEGALS "PUNISH OUR ENEMIES"
Each day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien supporters to help him "punish our enemies."
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH. org – get on their emails!
Labor Dept. Helps Illegal Alien Workers
Last Updated: Tue, 04/06/2010 - 11:04am
The Department of Labor has launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., referred to as "vulnerable" and "underpaid" by the presidential cabinet member who heads the agency.
Hundreds of new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees. Their message, in Spanish, is "we can help" bring workplace protections to the nation's most vulnerable and underpaid workers, including those who have no legal right to live in the Untied States.
(THE OBAMA PLAN TO PUT ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS!)
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, announced the "We Can Help" project with great fanfare a few days ago. A total of 1,000 investigators from her agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
(WHO WORKS FOR THE RIGHTFUL JOBS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS? WHO ENFORCES THE LAWS THAT PROHIBIT THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS, EVEN IF THEY HAVE A STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER? NOT THE LA RAZA DEMS, OR HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA!)
Solis told Latino workers that "your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay, especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours." She assured illegal immigrants that "if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws."
The same day Solis publicly announced the Obama Administration's new project, a Labor Department investigator visited a day laborer center in northern California to promote it. The federal employee actually chatted warmly with the illegal immigrants about how to find jobs without being exploited, according to a local newspaper report. "We're the feds but the good ones," he told the day laborers in Spanish. "We're here to help workers."
The agency has also launched a Spanish television advertising campaign to spread the word and created a web site. Workers in industries from construction to food service are urged to contact the Labor Department of wage and hour violations. An investigator may be deployed to the work site or the employer may be taken to court.
OBAMA COOKS THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS!
Do a search for OBAMA and LA RAZA – "THE RACE" – The Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA.
Unemployment Rate Falsified! (DC)
Just as the Federal Reserve Bank of America is a private bank, the United States Department of Labor is a private company. It's important to note that they were both established in 1913! Why should unemployment figures given by a private company to the U.S. citizens be believed? Hilda Solis was appointed to be Secretary of the United States Department of Labor by Obama. Being that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation and no longer a republic, it is not a stretch of the imagination that Obama would order an employee in one department of the corporation of which he is the CEO, to falsify unemployment rates along with other data. The true unemployment rate is estimated to be about 21 %. Obama only hired Hilda Solis because she's half Mexican, half Nicaraguan and he could then sucker in the racist Hispanic votes.
http://www.manta.com/c/mmcmlj6/united-states-department-of-labor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Solis
http://www.republicoftheunitedstates.org/what-is-the-republic/history/
Obama is surrounded by communists that he appointed to key positions in his administration. Hilda Solis may have questionable roots from Mexico (La Raza) and Nicaragua (communists) so she is not to be trusted! She's a liar just as everyone else in the administration, and real Americans know it! The brain dead zombies simply don't care.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/05/Suspicion-Falls-on-Labor-Secretary-Solis-as-Jobs-Numbers-Questioned
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA'S OPEN BORDERS AGENDA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
OBAMA'S AMERICA: Open & Undefended Borders!
"What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans."
THE LA RAZA PRESIDENT'S SABOTAGE OF OUR COUNTRY'S BORDERS FOR ILLEGALS' VOTES!
"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."
In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. "Blame America" has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/08/obamas-hispanicazation-of-america-most.html
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
Monday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, "undocumented immigrants") with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the "Hispanicazation" of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure.
Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation.
In reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update—Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area.
Perhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.
In a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that "Every child in the United States should learn Spanish." He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.
For decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America "is finally getting its act together" but fails to mention the Obama administration's $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil's Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.
Kristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers.
He fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.
President Barack Obama gives lip service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are skeptical regarding the Obama administration's resolve. They resent that the United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border.
For instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico, placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels' vicious murders on the United States.
The Obama administration's plan to resolve the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama re-affirms his support of a "pathway to citizenship" (amnesty) for illegal aliens in 2011.
The administration, however, has announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S. sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the United States.
Many national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges — once the pride of the nation — are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs.
Former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly said to a gathering of illegal aliens in California in 2009 that U.S. immigration laws were "un-American," suggesting that they need not be obeyed. Concerned citizens can only trust that the new speaker of the House, John Boehner, as part of congressional oversight of federal agencies, will demand enforcement of existing immigration laws.
When will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base?
To maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another.
One Obama apologist explained, "Campaign rhetoric is one thing," suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.
ALIPAC EXPOSES OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE AMENSTY!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/alipac-obamas-pursuing-executive.html
OBAMA QUIETLY PURSUING HIS BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY BY NON-ENFORCEMENT!
ALIPAC NOTE: The US Constitution does not allow the President to make policy out of legislation that has been defeated in Congress 8 times. These new authoritarian orders are not Constitutional and we are asking all of our supporters to be ready for emergency measures in defense of the American Republic in the coming weeks. This unlawful AMNESTY for ILLEGAL ALIENS will not stand!
LA RAZA INVITED TO LOBBY FOR ILLEGALS IN WHITE HOUSE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/cecilia-munoz-obamas-la-raza-infested.html
"Despite his solemn promise to the American people to keep lobbyists out of his Administration, two more have slipped in. The Hill reports:
The waivers were provided for Jocelyn Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of the president.
. . . Munoz was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, where she supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels. Munoz was heavily involved in the immigration battles in Congress in recent years, and is now a principal liaison to the Hispanic community for the administration.
Thanks for all the lies, Obama!!"
LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER "WISE LATINA" SONIA SOTOMAYER
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sonia-sotomayer-la-raza-party-member-on.html
PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS
OBAMA AND HIS LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINSTRATION
Sonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify requirement –
OBAMA'S SEC. of (illegal) LABOR, LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/jobs-obamas-dept-of-la-raza-illegal.html
LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not." (BUT THE PROBLEM IS… ONLY MEXICANS GET THE JOBS!)
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws ---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org
Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers
Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don't pay them fairly.
In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis assures that "every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not." Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new "Podemos Ayudar" (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid "regardless of immigration status."
In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it's a "serious problem" when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it's free and confidential. "Podemos ayudar," (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The Labor Secretary's new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as "vulnerable" and "underpaid." At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that "if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws."
"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."
Two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama's four years
Researchers say legals and illegals are more mobile than natives in America
By Stephen Dinan
Two-thirds of those who have found employment under President Obama are immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to an analysis that suggests immigration has soaked up a large portion of what little job growth there has been over the past three years.
The Center for Immigration Studies is releasing the study Thursday morning, a day ahead of the final Labor Department unemployment report of the campaign season, which is expected to show a sluggish job market more than three years into the economic recovery.
That slow market, combined with the immigration numbers, could explain why Mr. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have struggled to find a winning jobs message in some of the country's hardest-hit postindustrial regions.
"It's extraordinary that most of the employment growth in the last four years has gone to the foreign-born, but what's even more extraordinary is the issue has not even come up during a presidential election that is so focused on jobs," said Steven A. Camarota, the center's research director, who wrote the report along with demographer Karen Zeigler.
His numbers are stark: Since the first quarter of 2009, the number of immigrants of working age (16 to 65) who are employed has risen 2 million, from 21.2 million to 23.2 million. During the same time, native-born employment has risen just 1 million, to reach 119.9 million.
It's a trend years in the making: Immigrants are working more, and native-born Americans are working less.
In 2000, 76 percent of natives aged 18 to 65 were employed, but that dropped steadily to 69 percent this September. By contrast, immigrants started the last decade at 71 percent employment and rose to a peak of 74 percent at the height of the George W. Bush-era economic boom. They since have slid down to 69 percent amid the sluggish economy.
The Center for Immigration Studies, which wants the government to impose stricter limits on immigration, based its numbers on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.
Alex Nowrasteh, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, which favors letting the markets rather than the government control the flow of immigration, said Mr. Camarota's numbers are "making a mountain out of a molehill."
He said delving into specific numbers explains why immigrants have done better over the past four years: They generally gravitate toward parts of the economy that have picked up faster in the nascent recovery.
"Most of the areas of the U.S. economy that are hiring right now, like agriculture and high-tech industries, are those where immigrants have always been overly represented," Mr. Nowrasteh said.
He also said immigrants are quicker to jump into the rebounding job market while native-born Americans, who under federal law have more welfare options and access to unemployment benefits, are slower to find work.
Mr. Nowrasteh and Mr. Camarota said another factor could be immigrants' mobility.
Natives have roots wherever they live, and it may take higher wages to get them to move for jobs, even if their homes are in depressed areas. Immigrants already have uprooted themselves and can more easily pick places where jobs are available.
Indeed, Mr. Camarota's numbers show that most of the immigrant employment growth went to new arrivals, not to foreign-born residents already in the United States — a figure that suggests immigrants already settled here were having some of the same difficulties as the native-born.
There is some bright news: an uptick over the past year among native-born Americans accounting for two-thirds of all new employment growth.
Full overhaul
Net immigration — both legal and illegal — averaged more than 1.1 million in the 1990s and slightly less than 900,000 in the past decade.
Mr. Camarota said it didn't slow much despite the economic downturn.
"We have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."
Immigration has been a touchy political issue for more than a decade, and while all sides agree that the system is broken, efforts to overhaul it in 2006 and 2007 fell short.
This campaign, Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have talked about streamlining the legal immigration system to allow in more high-tech workers. Mr. Romney has said he wants to "staple a green card" to every advanced degree in science, mathematics or engineering earned by an immigrant.
Beyond that, Mr. Obama has vowed to make legalizing illegal immigrants a major push in a second term — and has said if he wins re-election, he thinks Republicans will embrace that goal, realizing that otherwise, Hispanic voters will reject the GOP.
Mr. Romney has talked about legalizing a small number of illegal immigrants, though he has been studiously vague about his specific plans in an effort to try not to alienate voters on either side of the issue.
Mr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.
Some Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.
Mr. Romney has said he would not rescind any stays of deportation that Mr. Obama issues but wouldn't issue any new ones himself.
The current system doles out legal visas based on family ties or employment prospects or even a random lottery designed to increase the diversity of those coming to the United States.
In 2007, senators proposed scrapping the legal system and replacing it with a points-based system that would assign a desirability grade to would-be immigrants. Work skills would have gained under that system.
But that proposal, along with the rest of the bill, collapsed amid a bipartisan Senate filibuster.
Mr. Nowrasteh at the Cato Institute said those decisions shouldn't be left up to bureaucrats anyway.
"The government can't pick winners and losers when it comes to green-energy firms like Solyndra, so what makes you think it can pick winners and losers when it comes to immigration?" he asked rhetorically.
Two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama's four years - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/31/two-thirds-of-jobs-go-to-immigrants/print/#ixzz2AysMQrGn
Why the new jobs go to immigrants
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration.
In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs.
"There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
In the US, President Bush calls for giving millions of illegal immigrants a kind of guest-worker status as a legal path to US citizenship. So far, no specific legislation to implement his suggestion has been put before Congress.
Meanwhile, US border patrols spend millions of dollars a year trying to keep illegals out. And yet, they keep coming, evidently little discouraged by recession or the 9/11 attacks. In the past four years alone, the number of immigrants ran some 2.5 million to 3 million, of which about half were illegal.
They come for jobs, of course. And the Bush administration makes barely any effort to enforce current law. In 2003, a total of 13 employers were fined for hiring undocumented employees.
In fact, neither Republicans nor Democrats have promoted enforcement of immigration law prohibiting the hiring of illegal immigrants, says Mr. Sum, head of Northeastern's Center for Labor Market Studies.
What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.
Most Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.
By NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times
A report about the work lives of recent Mexican immigrants in seven cities across the United States suggests that they typically traded jobs in Mexico for the prospect of work here, despite serious bouts of unemployment, job instability and poor wages.
The report, released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, was based on surveys of nearly 5,000 Mexicans, most of them here illegally.
Those surveyed were seeking identity documents at Mexican consulates in New York, Atlanta and Raleigh, N.C., where recent arrivals have gravitated toward construction, hotel and restaurant jobs, and in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Fresno, Calif., where they have been more likely to work in agriculture and manufacturing.
Unlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.
Once in the United States, they soon found that their illegal status was no barrier to being hired here. And though the jobs they landed, typically with help from relatives, were often unstable and their median earnings only $300 a week, that was enough to keep drawing newcomers because wages here far exceeded those in Mexico.
"We're getting a peek at a segment of the U.S. labor force that is large, that is growing by illegal migration, and that is bringing an entirely new set of issues into the U.S. labor market," said Rakesh Kochhar, associate director for research at the Pew Hispanic Center and author of the study.
The report suggested that policies intended to reduce migration pressures by improving the Mexican economy would have to look beyond employment to wages and perceptions of opportunity.
The survey found that the most recent to arrive were more likely to have worked in construction or commerce, rather than agriculture, in Mexico. Only 5 percent had been unemployed there; they were "drawn not from the fringes, but from the heart of Mexico's labor force," the report said.
After a difficult transition in their first six months in the United States - about 15 percent of the respondents said they did not work during that time - the rate of unemployment plummeted, to an average of 5 percent.
But in one of the most striking findings, 38 percent reported an unemployment spell lasting a month or more in the previous year, regardless of their location, legal status or length of time in the United States.
"These are workers with no safety net," Mr. Kochhar said. "The long-run implication is a generation of workers without health or pension benefits, without any meaningful asset accumulation."
On the other hand, Mr. Kochhar and Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, said the flexibility of this work force was a boon to certain industries like home construction, an important part of the nation's economic growth since the last recession.
Among respondents to the survey, those who settled in Atlanta and Dallas were the best off, with 56 percent in each city receiving a weekly wage higher than the $300-a-week median. The worst off were in Fresno, where more than half of the survey respondents worked in agriculture and 60 percent reported earning less than $300 a week. The lowest wages were reported by women, people who spoke little or no English, and those without identification.
To some scholars of immigration, the report underlines the lack of incentives for employers to turn to a guest worker program like the one proposed by President Bush because their needs are met cheaply by illegal workers - and all without paperwork or long-term commitment.
Guest workers might instead appeal to corporations like Wal-Mart, the scholars said, where service jobs are now the target of union organizing drives.
"You can't plausibly argue that immigrant-dominated sectors have a labor shortage," said Robert Courtney Smith, a sociologist and author of "Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants." Instead, he said, the report and evidence of falling wages among Mexican immigrants over time point to an oversupply of vulnerable workers competing with each other.
But Brendan Flanagan, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association, which supports a guest worker program, disagreed. "In many places it is difficult to fill jobs with domestic workers," Mr. Flanagan said. "We've seen a simple lack of applicants, regardless of what wage is offered."
Although the survey, conducted from July 2004 to January 2005, was not random or weighted to represent all Mexican immigrants, it offers a close look at a usually elusive population.
Those surveyed were not questioned directly about their immigration status, but they were asked whether they had any photo identification issued by a government agency in the United States. Slightly more than half over all, and 75 percent in New York, said they did not.
The migration is part of a historic restructuring of the Mexican economy comparable to America's industrial revolution, said Kathleen Newland, director of the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization based in Washington.
The institute released its own report on Tuesday, arguing that border enforcement efforts have failed. Workplace enforcement, which has been neglected, would be a crucial part of making a guest worker program successful.
For now, Mexicans keep arriving illegally.
"It doesn't matter if it's winter," said Ricardo Cortes, 23, a construction worker waiting for a friend outside the Mexican consulate in New York on Tuesday. "People are still coming because there's no money over there."
HERE'S HOW NO E-VERIFY BREAKS DOWN:
Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal
CA MAKES E-VERIFY ILLEGAL! COURTESY THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!
Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...
You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.
"Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year
Now take 30% away for state and federal tax
Joe Legal now has $31,231.00
Jose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year
Jose Illegal pays no taxes...
Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00
Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage
$1000.00 per month
Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00
Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare
Joe Legal pays for food
$1,000.00 per month
Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare
Joe Legal pays rent of
Joe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00
Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy
Jose Illegal pays rent
$500.00 per month
$6,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.
Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens...
Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
OBAMA and MEXICO ESTABLISH NEW GATEWAYS FOR THE LA RAZA HORDES TO INVADE BEFORE OBAMA'S AMNESTY:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/crisis-mexico-is-pouring-over-our.html
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BUILD THEIR RANKS WITH HEAVY BREEDING MEXICANS
ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES…who pays?
AMNESTY IT IS! OBAMA AND MEXICO ANNOUNCE EXPANDED ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/amnesty-or-more-looting-obama-and.html
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BEEDERS (AT GRINGO EXPENSE):
"Through love of having children, we are going to take over." AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY – OBAMA FUNDS LA RAZA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS AND IT OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CECLIA MUNOZ – GOOGLE IT!
more at this link –
JUDICIALWATCH.org
While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government
MEXICAN CONSULATES – HEADQUARTERS FOR THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA "THE RACE" INSTRUCTS CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ON LOOTING AMERICANS… but then it's by invitation of the DEMOCRAT PARTY! …. these same illegals already get our jobs!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-expansion-of-la-raza-mexican.html
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DUPLEX, 96 SOLOMON STREET
96 Solomon St Fremantle
Constructed from 1904, Constructed from 1903
Duplex, 96-98 Solomon Street, is a typical single storey limestone and iron duplex dating from 1903. The place has aesthetic value for its contribution to the streetscape and the surrounding area. It is representative of the typical building stock located within the residential areas of Fremantle. It is historically significant as a representation of typical workers' houses in the Fremantle area. The place is an example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture.
96-98 Solomon Street is a single storey limestone and corrugated iron single faced attached pair constructed in the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture. The walls are limestone. The roof is gabled and clad with corrugated iron and the gable has decorative timber finials and features. There are two tall chimneys evident. The verandah is under a separate corrugated iron roof supported by cement pillars with masonry wall balustrade. The house is elevated from street level. The asymmetrical front façade has double hung sash windows. There is a limestone and timber wall to the front boundary line with a timber gate.
Solomon Street was originally known as Mary Street, gazetted in 1905. It changed its name in 1951/52 to honour Elias Solomon, a Fremantle merchant and politician who built a house and lived in this street. Solomon was a Town Councillor 1878-1880, 1883-1886, Mayor in 1889-1891, 1896-98 and 1900-01. He was a state parliamentarian, MLA for the seat of South Fremantle 1892-1901, then transferred to Federal Politics with a seat in the House of Representatives from 1901-1903. Solomon was the first Member for Fremantle in the Federal Government. The duplex 96-98 Solomon Street used to be numbered 182-184 Mary St. Sewerage Diagram no.74 June 1908 shows a duplex pair at 182/184 being of brick construction with a front verandah that wraps around one side of each and a small rear verandah on each. Each has a stone outbuilding and closet close to the house. The 1913-14 rate book shows 182/184 as part 1 of 782 as a pair of cottages owned by Frank Biddles, occupied by David John Scott (182) and William Henry Carpenter (184). This place was identified by the Fremantle Society in 1979/80 as being of cultural heritage significance. (Coded: Red: "Significantly contributing to the unique character of Fremantle")
High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). Medium degree of authenticity with some original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements


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Airtel First to Launch 'Ultra-Fast 4G' services in Andaman and Nicobar
Bharti Airtel ("Airtel") has congratulated the Department of Telecommunications on the inauguration of the undersea optic fiber link between Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.
With the commissioning of the fiber link, Airtel has become the first mobile operator to launch 'Ultra-Fast 4G' services in Andaman and Nicobar. The blazing fast speeds on Airtel's 4G network will deliver a world-class digital experience to customers on the islands.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel said: "The new fiber link marks a major milestone in India's digital transformation journey as this critical infrastructure reaches the strategic archipelago. We are grateful to the Hon'ble Prime Minister for taking the time to launch this key digital infrastructure.
The fiber link will be a game changer for the region and unlock the true potential of 4G and even 5G in future for customers. Airtel remains fully committed to the Government's vision of Digital India. We hope the Department of Telecom will accelerate the deployment of USOF for building such infrastructure backbone to complement the efforts of telecom operators to bridge the digital divide."
Airtel has been serving customers in Andaman and Nicobar since 2005. It was the first private operator to launch mobile services in the islands. With today's launch of 'Ultra-Fast 4G' network, Airtel looks forward to further strengthening its bond with customers on the islands.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had nearly 420 million customers across its operations at the end of June 2020.
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Matthew McConaughey-Starrer 'Gold' Keeps Awards Window But Moves Wide Release To January 27
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EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company-Dimension will move the Stephen Gaghan-directed adventure film Gold to a January 27 opening, from its original plan to open wide on December 25. TWC-Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein said that the film will have the required limited screenings to qualify for Oscars and Golden Globes, but the move was made in recognition that the Christmas corridor is slammed with adult-themed films, and the film has much better commercial prospects opening a month later. That gives Gold its own lane to mine its considerable commercial potential. TWC will still aggressively push the film for Golden Globe and Oscar consideration –its two-city qualifying dates will likely stay on December 25 — highlighting a performance by a shape-changing Matthew McConaughey that Weinstein called "One of the best roles ever that he's played in his long career. We will open four days after the Academy nominations, and feel that we are taking advantage of both worlds," Weinstein said. "The awards season is very important, but Gaghan did a great job here, directing a terrific adventure that's got twists and turns and is American Hustle meets The Wolf of Wall Street. The way it looks right now, all these adult films are going wide, and there will be more competition in the marketplace than we've seen, maybe ever. This seemed a perfect way to maximize the commercial and awards prospects for a film that exhibition is very high on."
In an adventure tale inspired by a true story, McConaughey plays Kenny Wells, a charismatic wildcatter who takes over his father's mineral mining company. Where his recently deceased old man could trip on the sidewalk and find oil, Kenny has a long dry run. He stakes everything he has left, teaming up with an equally luckless geologist (Edgar Ramirez) to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Bruce Greenwood and Stacy Keach round out the ensemble cast. Patrick Massett & John Zinman wrote the script and are producing with Black Bear's Teddy Schwarzman (The Imitation Game) and HWY 61's Michael Nozik (Syriana). Paul Haggis, Ben Stillman and Richard Middleton are the executive producers.
Like several distributors, TWC finds itself with several films that are gaining Oscar buzz, the others including the Garth Davis-directed Lion with Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, and The Founder, the John Lee Hancock-directed drama that stars Michael Keaton as McDonald's impresario Ray Kroc.
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